Also Lynn Conway, the important engineer behind Mead Conway VLSI
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Every year, millions of trans folks are detransitioned against their will by the 5 year hard limit.
I just wish more people would talk about her music instead of her gender. I know she's bitter or dissatisfied about Switched on Bach, but I still listen to it regularly. There aren't many pieces of instrumental music that can actually make me laugh, but it does. Bach works on synth so well. Largely due to Carlos' efforts.
I was in a record store a few months ago, saw a copy of Switched on Bach, thought it would be interesting, and picked it up. Blew me away. Then I googled it, learned the story and how groundbreaking it was.
Now I've got a few albums of hers from that era. Great stuff.
My closest friend in grade school (circa 2010) is trans. Was it really that unusual to personally know trans people until recently?
some might say yes
I think a lot of the people currently freaking out about it have been, either individually or collectively, throwing red flags their entire life that say, "I am dangerous to anyone who does not conform to cis-hetero-normative culture," and trans people have wisely avoided them where possible and stayed in the closet where not.
One of my close friends' parents don't know they're trans because they know for a fact how badly they would react. They're conservatives and they're transphobic. It's stopping my friend from transitioning.
Now trans people are in the news and those same transphobic people are wondering where they've all come from and they're reacting in exactly the hostile way that the trans people who avoided them had predicted.
Nope, that's the point.
No
Electronic music pioneer and fuckin LEGEND Wendy Carlos, thank you very much.
It makes me feel icky to type it out... The terms "tranny" and "transvestite" were very common nomenclature in the 90s. In conversation, movies, television. Trans people were often a punchline. And absolutely existed.
Transvestite, I believe, is also a term applied to intersex persons as well, as far as I know.... At least historically.
The condition of being intersex, as far as I'm aware, is a well known condition dating back really far.
Those people truly have no gender (and/or they're both genders? IDK), so "trans" doesn't really apply to them IMO.
People used to use hermaphrodite as a slur not that long ago for intersex people, as well.
intersex people are exactly that - somewhere outside of the binary of the two sexes. Thanks to them we see the clearest example of how gender is simply assigned to a child at birth. Majority of intersex children are forced into one of the binary sexes and then forcefully assigned a gender to match so they can be "normal".
and it honestly comes down to the individual if they see themselves as trans or not, some might see what their parents did to be a forced transition, some might want to detransition from that, some might not
wasn't germany famously fucking around with some shit relevant to this before the whole "hitler arc"
sociology and psychology and one of the more fascinating concepts.
The fact that people try to argue that trans people simply did not exist prior to a few years ago is amusing to me.
I'm a passing, sorta stealth, trans man. I always find it funny when someone claims trans people didn't exist five or ten years ago, because I stated medically transitioning in 2012.
yeah, it's been around in the "modern era" since the 90's, but it's only really picked up steam on the internet in the last 5-10 years or so.
even i don't make the cut :( began transition in 2018 and though it feels like it was a week ago it happened 6 years ago, apparently
SRS in this context means sexual reassignment surgery. It also has many other meanings.
Synthesizer Relay System, aka a patch cord.
SRS wow
Supplemental restraint system
So that‘s what that stands for. I always wondered…
I saw this a while back on TikTok and had to dig up my memory of this. Around 2014 I was reading an article about the person who did some of the VFX for Tron: Legacy. I bookmarked it. At some point the link was dead. Turns out they came out as trans. I don't know if her site redesign/domain name has anything to do with that but it seeing this post always reminds me of that. https://jtnimoy.cc/item.php%3Fhandle=14881671-tron-legacy.html
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